We Find Quiet Water Today

Stan Getz / Joao and Astrud Gilberto: Corcovado

We find quiet water today,
the river sweeping in great
and beautiful curves,
the canyon walls steadily
increasing in altitude.
The escarpments formed by
the cut edges of the rock
are often vertical,
sometimes terraced,
and in some places
the treads of the terraces
are sloping.
In these quiet curves
vast amphitheaters
are formed,
now in vertical rocks,
now in steps...
--John Wesley Powell
journal entry for July 7, 1869

Miles Davis: Corcovado